Friday, December 2, 2011

Win a $100 MasterCard gift card for your holiday shopping pleasure

Priceless: Making your kids happy during the holiday season. Hanging out around the fireplace, watching The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, gorging on Grandma's sugar cookies and letting your little darlings stay up way too late won't cost you a cent. Presents? Not so much.

That's why MasterCard Priceless New York is sponsoring two $100 gift card giveaways, to help you buy some of the toys in the holiday gift guide or other goodies for your kids. These folks specialize in spreading cheer: The program offers MasterCard holders exclusive access to NYC restaurants, shopping and sporting events. And if you win a gift card and you'd like to treat yourself to something, too? Go for it! Because, power parent, you deserve it.

To enter to win one of the $100 gift cards, please leave a comment below about what sort of family fun you're looking forward to this season. Me, I want to get the kids new sleds, and then order us some snow from Amazon! Oh, wait, they're not yet stocking snow.

The giveaway is open until Monday, December 12 at 11:59 EST, and is for U.S. residents 18 and older. The gift cards are for use in the U.S. and online. I will randomly pick the winners at random.org, alert you by email and announce it here. Note, you must leave your email below if it is not visible on your blog to enter.

Good luck!

Update: The winners of the gift cards are Sam and Emily Grindstaff and Tabathia. Enjoy, ladies!

314 comments:

I am looking forward to EATING! We bake loads of stuff...gingerbread whoopie pies, fudge, sugar cookies, gingerbread people...and this year I am going to try my hand and making gingerbread houses from scratch. YUMMY!

I'm looking forward to spending Christmas day with my extended family in NJ. Well, not the "waking up crazy early on Christmas morning and then getting in the car and driving 6ish hours through NY and PA" part of spending Christmas day with my extended family in NJ, but after we've arrived in NJ for sure.

Looking forward to all things Nutcracker with my family! We also do lots of decorating, which both of my girls enjoy--and now they are both more independent in doing so. We celebrate all December long!

Ours is a bit different. My daughter has been in the ICU for the past 8 weeks and will likely be here for another month or so. I would blow the entire thing on decorations and fun things for her hospital room. This very well may be her last Christmas, and since we have to be in the hospital, we are going to make it memorable!

I am looking forward to seeing my sons face glow! At 9 years old he is just this year understanding the magic of Christmas. He face lights up when he sees all the christmas lights so I can't wait to see him when he see Santa. Just seeing the Joy on his face is a blessing. Years ago people would walk the neighborhood singing Christmas carols. This tradition seems to have faded away. I am hoping to orgranize a group in our neighborhood to go Caroling! This ought to be interesting.

Looking forward to sharing Christmas with my son for the first year he will starting to understand what it's about. His first time to sit on Santa's lap, bake cookies, string popcorn chains, decorate the tree, the daily advent calender- and presents!

I got a surprise this week that my 19 year old son is going to be able to come home for Christmas after all! Not much can top that, both my boys home is the best present I could ask for:)I follow you on Facebook, maybe I should twitter but I'm scared to get sucked into something else.Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Holidays to all!!

Hi Ellen, I have been following you for quite awhile now, both on FB and your blog! I love how you seem to always know exactly how to say what I have been thinking!

I work in a Dairy Plant where we make Egg Nog and so does my husband. We have both been working overtime so I am looking forward to the week before Christmas when Egg Nog production halts and we can get our family groove on! I have a friend loaning us her dog sled so that I can sit our non-mobil son in it and take him to a local nature preserve this winter. We have snow here from the middle of December through the end of March on average so it should be a lot of fun!

I am throwing an "elf" party for my girls and their cousins where they are allowed to put m&m's and marshmallows on their pizza and syrup on their spaghetti noodles! Oh and we will watch the movie of course.

elf party is so clever! and i want your egg nog factory commenter to give us a tour of the factory floor! and i agree, that SA deserves the most beautiful christmas with her family.

i want to make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with my girls, and the recipe for chocolate dreidls in family fun magazine (take a marshmallow. glue an unwrapped hershey kiss to the bottom with frosting. stick a pretzel stick in the top. dip the whole thing in chocolate. paint hebrew letters on it with frosting on a toothpick). and i want to see the Muppet movie and Hugo with the girls! and a $100 gift card shopping spree would be nice.

I am looking forward to being with my 3 year old son and seeing his face light up on christmas morning. Nothing else matters, as long as my son is happy. I want to be able to give my son the best christmas ever this year. He deserves it so much, he is so sweet and dosent ask for much, and winning this gift card would help me buy him toys to play with. thank you so much for tis chance to win. angelaconley@yahoo.com

I wasn't planning on putting up the Christmas tree until later (possibly even December 24th) but my 2 year old has been clamoring for me to put it up since just before Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to him and his dad assembling the tree, and I'm looking forward to going downtown to see the window displays, and I'm looking forward to friends coming over to eat cookies and drink eggnog laced liberally with brandy.

We go downtown with the grandparents and see all the beautiful Christmas trees they have decorated. Then of course little brother likes to visit Santa while his older brother (w/ special needs) hides with his Dad in the crowd to just get a peek.

Honestly? I just want a little snow. It would make the cold, frozen Minnesota ground look so much better. Then, my kids will be able to play in it, unlike last year, when they were too little. (They like mittens and hats this year too, so that's a plus.)

Mostly, I'm just looking to relax and enjoy family. My parents are coming for a week, and we haven't planned any outings. I'd like to keep it that way. J is wishing for enough snow to sled. We just cleaned out the garage to make an "invention laboratory" for J & her Daddy, so I can't wait to give her some of the new tools we bought her (kid sized!) for Christmas gifts.

I am looking forward to seeing my youngest two experience Christmas. My daughter just turned three and has cerbral palsy, so a lot of her "firsts" don't really happen until her "thirds" or "fourths". She's so cute though! Also, my youngest will be 2 in January so I think this will be an awesome experience for him. My 13 & 5 year old are ol' pros!

I think this year I'm most looking forward to doing all of the traditional things around the house with my kids; the baking cookies, decking the halls, and attempting to finally make a gingerbread house that doesn't collapse.

Our fun will be an unscheduled, therapy free week with family and friends! Local bounce house places, indoor playgrounds and hopefully some fun in the snow. :) Thanks for the opportunity! lys76 at msn dot com

I look forward to visiting NYC, taking my daughter to see the skaters at Bryant Park, listening to my mother-in-law play holiday music and jazz on her white piano, celebrating my husband's b-day on Christmas (yes, he has a bit of a J-complex), and best of all, eating Chinese food, the food of my people, on Christmas day!

I'm looking forward to out of town company from MT and CO and Papa (my husband) playing Santa to all of our little ones with the help of our 5 yr old grandson being Santa's helper. And hoping to get those few perfect photo's of it all.

I am looking forward to being at home with my kids! Getting a break from the running around, appointments & having quiet time (as quiet as that is with a 4&7 year old!) and playing board games, cooking and just hanging out.

My daughter is 10. This definitely will be her last "Santa" year; the writing has been on the wall for awhile, but this year so far she still believes in the Magic. So I am looking forward to one last morning of true Magic with both kids: she and her brother (who has a cognitive disability and is likely to go on believing for far longer) and the pure joy of childhood reflected in their faces on Christmas morning.

I am looking forward to baking cookies with my kids(and I hope they don't eat more dough than goes into the oven), decorating clear ornaments we got last winter in the clearance sales, introducing them to ice skating (and I hope they do better than I do!!) and having quiet days at home!

i just want to get my newborn son home from the hospital in time for christmas. He was born Nov 7th and we do not know if he will be home in time for his first Christmas. I can not wait to just sit with him by the tree and take lots of pictures

We are looking forward to going to special holiday shows and events like the Nutcracker, a special Muppets movie and show at the historic El Captian theater in Hollywood and then a short family vacation in Palm Springs.

Every year our family has a Family Night, Christmas Edition. We have a fire in the fireplace and turn off all the lights in the house except Christmas decor and candles. Then we put a blanket on the floor and eat ice cream, because what's a family night without ice cream?! This s followed up by a fun family activity. One of our favorite traditions!

I'm looking forward to the Christmas break so I can do some things with my grand kids - go into Boston to see the lights and go to the museum, go to a play, play in the snow (if there is any), ...... just be together.